ESCO in Ávila

Urban lighting

The local government of Ávila and Philips join forces to redesign the city’s lighting

Ávila’s return to enlightenment

Case study

Ávila was selected as winner of the international urban lighting competition, City.People.Light in 2015. Find out more about the award at philips.com/citypeoplelight

The city’s redesign will coincide with the 5th centenary of the birth of Saint Teresa of Ávila – one of the most important figures in the city’s history. Saint Teresa was renowned worldwide for her devotion to enlightenment, which she brought to others through her writing. This project will enable the city of Ávila to regain its status as a global benchmark for enlightenment, not in a spiritual sense, but rather through a focus on the functional and decorative.

We know that light changes people’s lives and is capable of marking the rhythm of a community or a space”Ignacio Muñoz MartínManager at Eulen (ESCO) responsible for the project’s installation and maintenance

Public lighting

ESCO in Ávila

Panorama

ÁvilaSpain

Client Local government of Ávila

Date 2014 - 2015

Location Ávila, Spain

Philips managers Antonia Altamirano David Escudero

Products used Selenium LED, Luma, UrbanStar

The city’s government worked with Philips to renovate the lighting citywide, making it more sustainable as well as enhancing the experience of discovering the streets and monuments that enlightened Saint Teresa in her day.

“When we take on a project to change a city’s lighting in its entirety, it is essential to know how to manage that change. Communicating the short- and medium-term objectives is fundamental to enabling the city’s residents to understand the process,” says Rafael Gallego, Lighting Designer at AureoLighting.

Perhaps the most important aspect of this project was the importance of communicating to the locals how the changes would take place, what they’d involve, and how it will would break down into phases. “The first phase of switching the functional lighting to LED ignited some uneasiness among the local population,” he adds. “Suddenly, the light pollution reduced dramatically and neighbors complained that the monuments had ‘disappeared,’ now that they were no longer bathed in that surfeit of light they used to be.” A media campaign and the subsequent launch of the second phase – the ornamental lighting – caused that “uneasiness” to fade away and the city could finally identify with its new lighting.

Working with Philips makes things so much easier, giving you a catalog of products that fulfill every need or requirement you could possibly encounter”

Rafael GallegoLighting Designer at AureoLighting

Public lighting

ESCO in Ávila

Small Market Square

The project carefully took into account all the needs that a city like Ávila (with Heritage of Humanity status) and its residents might have.To achieve this, the team developed and refined the idea of the “new nocturnal landscape” that would define the city’s personality after nightfall. “The first thing we did was to understand the lighting requirements in the different areas of Ávila, both inside and outside of the historical city walls,” explains Rafael Gallego. “We also wanted the lighting to form part of the city’s identity and enhance its position in the tourism industry even further, by improving people’s experience of strolling around the city at night. And all with sustainable lighting that only Philips could provide,” he concludes.

The philosophy behind the new lightingÁvila’s new lighting is divided into four segments: functional lighting, ornamental lighting, event lighting and business lighting. These four segments are distributed as a series of layers, one on top of another, meaning you can switch each layer on and off, or adjust the brightness of each layer according to the needs of each moment in time.

For this project, Philips LED warm white luminaires (3000 K) were used inside the city walls, and neutral white luminaires (4000 K) were used outside the walls.This approach helps avoid unnecessary confusion by using a higher color rendering index that enhances visual comfort for passers-by. These luminaires reduce power consumption

by up to 77% compared to the previous installation, saving 2,767,000 kW per year and reducing CO

2 emissions by

162 tons per year, which positively affects the city’s air quality. In addition, the new lighting system has a service lifetime of 12 years, thus reducing the cost of maintaining the luminaires to almost zero during that period.

Improved visual

comfort76%

average energy savings with LED lighting

12 years service lifetime

0€ maintenance for fixtures

Reduction of

162 tons of CO2 per year

When you are flooded by light, the architecture gushes forth from another dimension, two design methods combining for a single goal: to convey”Cristina SanchidrianMunicipal Architect in Ávila

Main benefits

Public lighting

ESCO in Ávila

Historical city center

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